Sabian Symbol, Jones Pattern, Evolutionary Configurations, and More

This article covers significant aspects, degree symbols, and other important factors in this New Moon at 10 Scorpio on November 1. This brings the Light of a union/reunion with deep connections and a new freedom. Cooperate with the flow of things and enjoy the protection you have.

We’re now solidly in a new era which began at the Jupiter/Uranus conjunction at 22 Taurus in late April. That conjunction, in effect for 13 or more years until 2037, promised we have seen or will see the “white dove flying over troubled waters.” That symbolized a sign from Spirit that having endured our “ordeal,” we could now move into a new life. That is now an active element in our lives and will become more prominent in May 2025.

We are now at the “far end” of the year cycle, with the inner planets all pulling away from Mars and Jupiter, the planets which close the outer planet occupied span. The inner planets have all finished their oppositions to Pluto, Saturn, Neptune, and Uranus for the year except for the Sun in 2 weeks. We now close in on the conjunctions of the inner planets with the outers for months to come.

This is a month where we free ourselves from old bonds while establishing new ones, feeling the flow of Mercury, Mars, and Neptune anchored by Pluto at the last degree of Capricorn. This makes a “Peace Sign” configuration, so follow the penetrating insights into a way to preserve what you value from the past as you accept the abundance that is perfect for you. The Uranian renewal and rejuvenation are still happening, and this month helps us eliminate to attract.

This Lunation is going to be a VERY intense period due to Mars opposed Pluto. Find a way to get around inhibiting circumstances while maintaining some degree of control over the process. With the Grand Water Trine and the opposition, it’s like a serious whitewater rafting challenge, but the supporting aspects show that skill, caution, and focused will power along with strength and flexibility are the keys to mastering situations.

The span between 6-10 Scorpio is about “communion” on the social and emotional levels of life which fulfills the span which began with the freedom to “tear ourselves away from the known and familiar, gambling on a great dream.” This will bring deepening relationships with others and the “emergence of group consciousness” for many. The next month is a time to feel the various currents, inner and outer, and with courage, allow yourself the freedom to be “cut, ground, and polished” into something with great social value.

The Planetary Spread

In this chart, because the inner planets are between early Scorpio and mid-Sagittarius in a 38 + degree span, that’s the main focus for the next 4 weeks. At this point, with the Grand Water Trine and all the planets spread out in various signs, it creates a Splay Jones pattern. At this time we have planets in Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Pisces, Taurus, Gemini, and Cancer.

Depending on the position of the Moon and the inner planets relative to the outer planets, different months bring us different Jones Patterns. These patterns operate their own independent influence, regardless of which planet is in which sign.

Currently, the outer planet occupied span begins with Pluto in late Capricorn, and proceeds through Saturn in mid-Pisces, Neptune in late Pisces, Uranus in late Taurus and ends with Jupiter in late Gemini. (We don’t include TransPluto, since Jones didn’t use it in defining his patterns). Because we have 7 signs represented in spread out around the signs and a Grand Water Trine creating a tripod stabilizing the entire spread, this is a “Splay” Jones Pattern.

So What is a “Splay” Jones Pattern and how does it work?

Due to the way the planets are irregularly spread out among the signs, this type of spread which features all the planets in odd angles to each other with differing distributions among the signs, creates a “Splay” Jones Pattern. As Marc Jones put it, “the arrangement is neither even nor symmetrical,” revealing “strong and sharp aggregations of the planets at irregular points.”

Dr. Jones states “This suggests highly individual or purposeful emphases in the life, where the temperament juts out into experiences according to its own very special tastes.” This pattern “makes its own anchorage in existence,” and has a quality of “rugged resistance to pigeonholing, either in the near conventional compartments of nature, or in the idea-pockets of associates.”

He goes on to state this pattern gives a “persistent emphasis on individuality,” and the “spokelike emphases of the planetary groupings” are random, but have a “tripod” footing and approach to life circumstances. He says this pattern “reveals a very intensive personality who cannot be limited to any single steady point of application.” This temperament is “particular and impersonal in its interests,” rather than “universal-impersonal” or “particular-personal.”

This implies that affairs will be diversely spread out, some will not mesh well with others, and there will be a “hub and spoke" quality to what happens these next 4 weeks and for the duration of the eclipse effects. This spread shows a wide diversity of things going on that promotes individuality.

The Sabian Symbol for the New Moon

A New Moon sets the seed forms for what the following month will demonstrate. This Lunation falls at 10 Scorpio, and it is said that the first third (decan) of any sign deals with the physical, material, and actional levels of life, and being the first decan of Scorpio it has a sub-influence of Scorpio with and added dose of Mars. While I've given you a sense of this degree up to now, this is where we go into depth.

The Sabian symbol for the 10th degree of Scorpio is “A Fellowship Supper.” In the original Jones class notes Dane Rudhyar published in The Astrology of Personality, he states this is a degree of “Companionship rooted in past performance,” ”Group personality emergence,“ and Fraternity of ideals uplifting individual efforts.”

In the Astrological Mandala, he goes on to say that this degree symbolizes “the overtones of human relationships based on a community of work or experience.” It’s about the bond we share with others after we’ve done something together, where “activity is at the root of consciousness.”

He offers that it’s about generating social consciousness and patterns and in the process seeing the emergence of group consciousness and/or a “group personality.” He states “wherever this symbol appears, it suggests the importance of establishing or strengthening links with those with whom one has shared, or can share, living experiences.”

Ultimately, this is a degree of “comradeship.” This degree falls in the Span of Retention, and is the fifth, or culminating degree, of the Act of Group Integration in the Scene of Communion on the emotional-cultural level.

Dr. Marc E Jones, creator of the Sabian Symbols, says this is a degree of “human service,” and our need for the company of others. “Here the emphasis is on the physical and bodily essentials of life as the simplest possible factors in any social intercourse.”

He goes on to say that what we understand best in our own way becomes the basis for how we may appreciate others in our lives. We are told the keyword is FRATERNITY. He states that when operating in a positive manner, this degree is “an effective channeling of personal aspirations into the commonplace grooves of a shared experience.”

From this symbol, it seems the next few weeks will help us gather with others and feel the closeness and fellowship generated by what we’ve done together, or what we’re doing together. This month is about shared values and shared togetherness.

Important Aspects

Remember that in reading a Lunation chart (as well as a horary, inceptional, electional, or any event chart) the forming aspects show things to come, while separating aspects show things already past. Partile separating aspects show what’s been going on in the Now. This section covers only forming and partile separating aspects.

The Lunation is vigintile Mercury, novile Venus, trine Saturn, sesquisquare Neptune, and binovile Pluto; Mercury is vigintile Venus, trine Mars, quadranovile Jupiter, biseptile Saturn, trine Neptune and sextile Pluto; Venus is opposed Jupiter, quadranovile Uranus, trielftile Neptune, and novile Pluto; and the Sun makes the same aspects as the Moon.

Outer planet aspects feature Mars novile Jupiter, sesquisquare Saturn, trine Neptune and opposed Pluto; Jupiter is trielftile Saturn and quindecile Uranus; Saturn is quintile Uranus and semisquare Pluto; and Uranus is sextile Neptune.

This month the friction is provided by 1 semisquare and 3 sesquisquares. While squares challenge “right action” at a turning point of a cycle, the semisquares are more about internal decisions and movement with personal inner crises, both public and private, which we must deal with.

Sesquisquares on the other hand create friction, agitation, and irritation in our world that involves others. In my experience sesquisquares are not necessarily associated with times of crisis, but they do seem to be times of no rest and spurs to act that may be inconvenient and aggravating. They definitely aren’t calm! And quincunxes force adjustments and sacrifices.

The long term pressure of Saturn semisquare Pluto is a time of serious internal decisions and movement related to the emergent structure of that which purifies everything. It’s been in play during the recent global conflicts. Adapt, purify, imagine, adjust, and show good humor while not letting the aggravation factor of the semisquare get to you.

Special Configurations in Evolutionary Astrology

This month we have 3 special evolutionary configurations, one involving the Lunation.

1) Mercury in Scorpio is trine Mars in Cancer and Neptune in Pisces, with Mars trine Neptune. This is a Grand Water Trine, and positively impacts all planets and points we have in the last 5 degrees of the Earth and Water signs. This brings an element of flow to events, and gives us freedom to navigate the currents we encounter.

When we add Pluto in an axis of tension with Mars, we have what I’ve termed a “Peace Symbol” special configuration. This gives a huge productive boost to Pluto through Mercury, allowing us to know to the core of something. Whether to be a compassionate mediator or a surgeon cutting to the core of something toxic or rotten, Mercury trine its ruler Mars is a very powerful tool for clear insights.

2) Interestingly, besides the trine to Mars and Neptune, Mercury makes a quadranovile with Jupiter and Mars noviles Jupiter. This creates 4 points of a “9 Pointed Star of Spiritual Realizations” impacting planets or points we have near 1-2 Aries, Leo, and Sagittarius, 7-12 Taurus, Virgo, and Capricorn, 17-22 Gemini, Libra, and Aquarius, and 27-30 Cancer, Scorpio, and Pisces. All 9th harmonic aspects involves a revelation after a time of gestation, or a realization that some things must cook a while before we will know the truth we seek from those planets.

3) The Lunation is novile Venus and binovile Pluto, with Venus novile Pluto. This creates 3 points of an entirely different “9 Pointed Star of Spiritual Realizations” impacting planets or points we have near 1-2 Gemini, Libra, and Aquarius, 8-12 Cancer, Scorpio, and Pisces, 18-22 Aries, Leo, and Sagittarius, and 28-30 Taurus, Virgo, and Capricorn. These two configurations make it clear that we are on the threshold of many liberating realizations which will set us free in a world of clear truths.

I’ll give a special mention here for two important aspects. The Lunation is trine Saturn, which will be a tremendous stabilizing force helping us get clear about all kinds of things. As this trine spans from 8-15 degrees of Water signs, that will help planets we have in that sector of Earth and Water, and coupled with the Peace Sign configuration, we have a lot of harmony in the Earth and Water sectors this next month.

The other important aspect is Mercury biseptile Saturn, which puts us at a fork in the waning Mercury/Saturn cycle. This brings choices and changes to planets or points near 27 Scorpio-1 Sagittarius, 19-23 Capricorn, 11-15 Pisces, 2-6 Taurus, 23-27 Gemini, 15-19 Leo, and 6-10 Libra. Look to the houses this aspect falls in, remembering that it involves the ruler of your Gemini and Virgo at a fork in the road with the ruler of your Capricorn and Aquarius.

Explaining Harmonics

Aspects in the same series are considered to be various stages of “harmonics” for each series. In the 7th harmonic aspect series of “destiny,” this month we have 1 biseptile. In the 5th, 10th, 15th and 24th harmonic specialization series, we have 3 vigintiles, 1 quindecile, and 1 quintile. The 9th harmonic gives us the most aspects this month with 4 noviles, 2 binoviles, and 2 quadranoviles, and in the 11th harmonic faith series there are 2 trielfiles.

The novile (9th harmonic), septile (7th harmonic) and elftile (11th harmonic) series all feature spiritual aspects. All novile series (9th harmonic) aspects indicate things which need to be put on the shelf for a while, or that which has been waiting can now move forward. They represent gestative energies that can lead to great spiritual realizations. Septile series aspects represent forks in the road of destiny, while the 11th harmonic elftile series indicate that faith is required to deal with transcending some dualities, issues and points of evolution where we must make a leap of faith to attain a form of mastery over that type of duality. This series tests our faith. Both the 7th and 11th series involve non-rational aspect values, bringing an element of irrationality in behavior and circumstances.

The quintile and biquintile (5th harmonic) and related 10th (decile and tredecile), 15th (quindecile), and 20th harmonic (vigintile) aspects are all specialization aspects. You can find more by going to Astrology Class on the Specializing Aspects Pt. 1 – The Quintile and Biquintile, and Astrology Class on the Specializing Aspects Part 2 – The Decile, Tredecile, Quindecile and the Vigintile.

You can find out more about the spiritual aspects (septile, novile, and elftile series) by referencing this brief overview of Astrological Aspects – the 7th, 9th, and 11th Harmonic Series Aspects and their Symbols. I did a much lengthier exploration and explanation of how each of the 11th harmonic series aspects work in the article The 11th Harmonic Aspects in Astrology – the Elftile Series of Faith and Transcendence.

Element Balance and Who’s Leading the Sun

This month shows a huge imbalance in the elements, with the 10 traditional planets occupying 7 signs. We have 1 planet in Fire (inspiration and warmth), 2 planets in Earth (practical grounding), 1 in Air (relatedness and communicating), and 6 in Water (feelings and experiencing).

Air and Earth are “cool” elements, while Fire and Water are “hot” elements. With this distribution, it’s fairly hot and VERY watery! So the flow is up, intense, fairly grounded, with a need for organization and discernment. Venus opposed Jupiter should up the warmth and interactivity even if they are the only planets in those elements.

The current sequence at present of Deciding, Feeling, and Thinking

We’ve been through several different sequences over the past few months. There are six patterns, and each has their strengths and weaknesses. This continues last month’s pattern. For now, as a process of moving through events, the most effective “firing sequence” for approaching life and experience over the next four weeks involves beginning activity with deciding, then thinking, then feeling.

This will help us all to get it in gear, make decisions, and act on those decisions. Once we do our decision or action, these will lead us to a new understanding or vision on the basis of the action. Once we get the understanding, communication, or vision, then we must learn to sit with the feelings and experience them, and get clear about what we’re feeling and why.

So lead with deciding and acting, then move into a vision or understanding, and then name what you’re feeling. That way nothing will get bottled up through underuse, and you can move through experiences with power and clarity.

What do you have to do? Find your vision or understanding you need to execute that decision. Are your actions leading you to the understanding you need? When you find your understanding, then take time to feel the process so you can use the flow to take you into the next decisions and actions.

Summing Up

This New Moon will bring forth new groups and deeper connections within those groups, stabilized at the end of a long cycle as we deal with the Mars opposed Pluto. That aspect can bring deep insights and freedom to “cut to the chase” in anything we’re doing. This is the month to shed skins, shed things we no longer need, refuse people and situations which are passive or active-aggressive or are not honest, and visualize our heart’s desire by defining role, function, and imagery precisely according to what we know is perfect for us.

Venus opposed Jupiter will bring an air of excitement to the next month, both liberating and somewhat exaggerated at times. Exercise your freedom to play, to be with others, and see what you want to make manifest in the coming months. We’re setting a “temporary stage” as we prepare for the coming Mars retrograde, which will slow some things down, stop some things entirely, reverse course on other things, and bring a new pace of activity which will show us the permanent patterns in our life and the world.

Pay attention to what happens during this Mars opposition Pluto, since we’ll be dealing with it again at the beginning of January, but from Leo to Aquarius. This is the last opposition of the Pluto in Capricorn era, so see what you want to keep from the past as you prepare to be shot out of a proverbial cannon beginning in April. Keep letting go of stagnant or toxic situations and people, and keep interactions as light and bright as Venus in Sagittarius will allow!

While Saturn’s in Pisces, we are learning about the collective field and techniques of “non-local awareness” while developing our subtle senses of clairvoyance, clairaudience, and clairsentience. Forgiveness allows Divine Grace to manifest, and the quicker things flow down the timestream the less of an obstruction they’ll be.

Saturn in Pisces is teaching us how to demonstrate practical compassion as we live at a higher level than we used to. We are now living the life renewal we “heard as a call” last June, and are preparing for our symbolic “feast.”

We’re in the midst of an 11 week period of saying goodbye to old ways, places, and people, However, since all forms pass away in this impermanent world, this created space for new ways and new experiences since there’s more potential than there is in whatever has left. Celebrate the uplifting energies at play in your chart, and let go of memories which don’t serve the flow into the future. Feel the lightness of your unique evolutionary dance through space and time. We’re all moving from the interpersonal to the transpersonal level of focus.

Neptune is showing the way to “let go let god” as we approach the threshold of Neptune in Aries. For now, practice sensing the flow and simultaneity of knowing and experiencing a vaster connection to the collective field. This prepares us for receiving what we need to walk into the new collective reality of Neptune in Aries in 2025!

We have been exploring our new life, new land, new field and new focus which has unfolded since January. Be reasonable and diplomatic as you say yes to some things and no to others, as everything serves personality integration or reintegration. This helps us follow through, recalibrate, say goodbye with grace and elegance, and contribute to our own healing, others’ healing, and the healing of humanity.

The Long View

In 2020 we entered a transition phase in human history. While we will be functioning within the Capricorn cycles we began then, we also have begun an era unknown to humanity since the 13th and 14th centuries. Even then, we were still in the depth of the Age of Pisces, so the awakening of new ideas then were relative to the old era, whereas what’s coming involves wave after wave of Aquarian energies, pushing us to the coming Great Age emerging in the second half of this century.

The long wave Aquarian pulses were initially set into motion by the Mars conjunct Saturn at 1 Aquarius on March 31, 2020, marking the initiation of archetypal Aquarian preliminary structures offered by Saturn. The promise and potential of the new Aquarian pulse then began to expand into a greater social and cultural vision beginning at the Jupiter conjunction with Saturn, the Grand Mutation of the Solstice also at 1 Aquarius. So we have 20 years of Aquarian energies set into motion by that conjunction!

All Aquarian transits and conjunctions in 2022, 2023, and 2024 have given a new impetus and new expression to the Aquarian structures which took shape in 2021. Each transit strengthens the Pluto in Aquarius “generation” of the 21st century which lasts until 2043. As there will be a Jupiter conjunction with Pluto at 15 Aquarius in 2033, we’ll see the “expansion of the Angels of the Age of Aquarius” at that time.

2021 opened a new adventure for all of us, and the long term “metamorphosis” we went through showed us what the beginning of the coming Age of Aquarius is about. 2022 helped us remember we are Beings of Light, a Superstar shining the Light of our Eternal Love into our world. We’re now expanding our spiritual knowledge, understanding, and effective forms of service, and have entered a new phase with Mars in a new Sun/Mars conjunction cycle.

New groups of Spiritual communities have formed since 2021, and are being given a boost this year. Those which are Aquarian in nature will be “lifted on the wings of angels” in 2024. Trust the process. Revolution is in the air! And when you find things and people of eternal worth, value them with all your heart.

Saturn: Spiritual Master, Spiritual Friend

Saturn in Pisces helps us understand how to deepen our connection with others and Source. Because Saturn plays such a large part in our lives, if you haven’t gotten your copy already, please give yourself the timeless gift of my book, Saturn: Spiritual Master, Spiritual Friend. This book shows you the way to take command of your power to steer your life in a conscious way, using Saturn’s strengths and skills to master life on your own terms. It was written for both astrologers and non-astrologers, and will help you understand how your life experiences assisted your Soul growth and your power to change negative karma to positive karma. Each time you re-read any part of it you’re sure to find undiscovered gems of insight helping you throw off attitudes which frustrate your ability to live your higher Purpose on your own terms.

And now, on a related note….

Because Venus is the ruler of Uranus, the herald for the inner planets, AND the only planet in a Fire sign right now, She is incredibly powerful. Add the opposition to Jupiter, and we could be free to enjoy ourselves and the world of interactions to a superb degree this next month. Venus has tremendous influence in shaping our expression and how we release our “potential for beauty” or “potential to enjoy life with others.” This month She brings beauty and value to our freedom to dance with others, with life, and with greater truths, and protects us as we experience powerful natural energies.

If you want to know more about how Venus works its magic to bring us the people and things we need to find spiritual understanding, you can get a deeper understanding of you power to shape your future by getting your copy of The Magic of Venus: Friendships, Soul Mates, and Twin Flames.

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It has chapters on the qualities of each sign’s natural mate, the qualities of Venus in each sign, Venus retrograde, and when crucial choices and changes are made, affecting who we attract in the future. It was written for both astrologers and lay people, and as it has a thousand gems for better relationships, with self, others, and Source, please consider getting your copy by going to the link above! (And when you’re done, please leave a review on Amazon, since it helps the book and all other books on astrology as well!)

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